Just had a couple of inquiries about the Summer schedule... Saturday Night Parades start on June 23 and end on September 1. The Gathering of the Bands/Massed Bands event will be on August 25....We look forward to another summer of good pipe music! As usual, we welcome guest pipers, who can find our tunes at kspb.ca.

We've just finished celebrating the birth of Robbie Burns and his remarkable contribution to poetry and song... Burns was not a piper but the Great Highland Bagpipes were played in his lifetime. The first documentary evidence of Scottish bagpipes is definite in 1396, when records of the Battle of the North Inch of Perth reference "warpipes" being carried into battle. The practice of playing bagpipes was abandoned in the First World War due to the high number of casualties. However, the 10th Battalion Highland Light Infantry landed in Normandy on the 18th June 1944. They advanced through Normandy and crossed the Rhine on the 24th March 1945. The now famous pipe tune that commemorated the event being penned by the Battalion’s Pipe Major Donald Ramsay and Corporal J. Moore. Ramsay reportedly composed the first version of the tune while sitting on a tank as it proceeded to the Rhine. It is now played regularly by the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band. A version of the 10th HLI Crossing the Rhine can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZNdmt3jmk. See also a bit of history here: http://highlandlightinfantry.org.uk/world-war-two/

This past Saturday, January 20th 2018 the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band celebrated their 24th Annual Robbie Burns Supper on the nearing 259th anniversary of the bards birth. In appreciation of those who allow us to continue with this tradition we recognize: ORGANIZERS Marlene Reid, Terry Reid and Jennifer Farrell SPONSORS Century 21 Robert Q Travel Playful Piper Finchers Jb's Lingerie The Independent Machett Financial Quinn Florist Dano's Kitchen Judi Brown Real Estate Miller Insurance Tropix Sun & Swim Sleeper Bed Gallery Ontario Power Generation Queen St Veterinary Eian Farrell REMAX Bruce Power Rexall Pharma Plus Kincardine Commercial Printing Kincardine Presbyterian Church J’Adorn CONTRIBUTORS Scott Duncan Stuart Killin Andy & Kathy Fraser Kate O'Brien Charlie Hunter Norm Gauthier Nick Reid Nicole Reid Laurie Dalton Brenda Manderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqiJ-MSlNY

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/sunday-edition/segment/15105530 ....and when were they not?